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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Subject: AUGUST Matches Found: 65 A DOUBLE BALLAD OF AUGUST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All afric, winged with death and fire Last Line: Life yearns for solace toward the sea. Subject(s): August; Sea; Wind; Ocean A YEAR'S CAROLS: AUGUST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great august, lord of golden lands Last Line: Make night a noon where darkness dies. Subject(s): August; Night; Seasons; Bedtime AN AUGUST SUNSET, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With what a glory in the west Last Line: Than in the first flush of its power. Subject(s): August; Beauty; Evening; Sunset; Twilight AUGUST, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soul is like a song-bird, and must hold Last Line: To wake renewed in beauty, freshly fair. Subject(s): August AUGUST, by ERNA E. HOEFS Poem Text First Line: The month that rests upon the earth Last Line: The promise made by spring. Subject(s): August AUGUST, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She'll come at dusky first of day Last Line: And I will follow her away. Subject(s): August; Beauty; Love; May (month); November AUGUST, by MUNA LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day after day the treeless street was baked Last Line: Upon cool freshness of the cress-like phrases. Alternate Author Name(s): Munoz Matin, Luis, Mrs.; Munoz Matin, Muna Lee Subject(s): August AUGUST, by CHARLES MAIR Poem Text First Line: Dull august! Maiden of the sultry days Last Line: The toil and languor of the sultry days. Subject(s): August; Nature AUGUST, by MABLE BANKS PIPER Poem Text First Line: White clouds, blue skies Last Line: When she finds her first gray hair. Subject(s): August AUGUST, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No wind, no bird. The river flames like brass Last Line: Drifts the noon's single cloud, white, glaring, still. Subject(s): August AUGUST, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No breezes stir the foliage Last Line: By some lilied pond or brook. Subject(s): August; Summer AUGUST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were four apples on the bough Last Line: Mown from the harvest's middle-floor Subject(s): Apples; August; Fruit; Trees AUGUST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dead is the air, and still! Last Line: Beauty, thus rethroned, accepts and blesses her children Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): August; Beauty; Life AUGUST (1), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A day of torpor in the sullen heat Last Line: Within the arms of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): August; Nature; Night; Sailing & Sailors; Bedtime AUGUST (2), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mellow month and merry Last Line: With bangles in your hair! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): August; Beauty; Seasons AUGUST 20-21, by GERALD STERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the age of loosestrife Subject(s): August; Weeds AUGUST 20-21, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the age of loosestrife Last Line: He loves the wetness, he hates the violent sneezing Subject(s): August; Weeds AUGUST AFTERNOON, by J. P. IRVINE Poem Source First Line: In stifling mows the men became Subject(s): August; Nature AUGUST EVENING, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: See, a hand sweeps stars Last Line: Sending me to sleep beside you, again, tonight Subject(s): August; Night AUGUST EVENING WITH TRUMPET, by HARRY HUMES Poem Source First Line: Up in the woods a neighbor or stranger Last Line: As simply as longing or breath Subject(s): August AUGUST FIRST, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Late night on the porch, thinking Last Line: The brook talks. The night listens Subject(s): August AUGUST IN THE CITY, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brooding hours, through the dull afternoon. Last Line: Where the glad, fresh rain beats!) Subject(s): August; Cities; Urban Life AUGUST MOOD, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where the pines have fallen on the hillside Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): August AUGUST MOONRISE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was gone, and the moon was coming Last Line: For the theft of all of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): August AUGUST NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a midsummer night, on a night that was eerie with stars Last Line: You said, and no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): August; Night; Bedtime AUGUST WEATHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead heat and windless air Last Line: And the ripe apples fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Apples; August; Fruit; Harvest; Summer AUGUST, ALCESTE, by MICHAEL CHARLES ALSTON MOTT Poem Source First Line: Low tide, late afternoon when santa marias Last Line: Alceste, say nothing final till I mend my song Subject(s): August BALLADE OF AUGUST, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Now, when the street-pent airs blow stale Last Line: Neath other skies, 'mid stranger men! Subject(s): August; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails COLD AUGUST, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun had shrunk to a dime Last Line: Them disappear in southward course. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): August; Birds; Cold; Hawks; Summer CROSSING A FOOTBRIDGE ON SALT CREEK EARLY MORNING IN MID-AUGUST, by TWYLA HANSEN Poem Source First Line: This time the great blue heron doesn't take flight Last Line: It's taken my whole life to become this harmless Subject(s): August; Bridges; Courage; Morning END OF AUGUST, by JOHN SKOYLES Poem Source First Line: The crease on the map Last Line: By whatever preys upon them Subject(s): August FIRENZE IN AUGUST, by BERNADETTE HIGGINS Poem Source First Line: Lizards, rosemary and %an adder cannot compensate Last Line: Or whether, here too, %I would be an alien abroad Subject(s): August; Tourists FORTY STEPS IN AUGUST, by DAVID CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: Dusk tipping the hill's houses toward the pier Last Line: How easily a life settles where it's turned Subject(s): August GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 11, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the wood of teutoburg Last Line: And towards it I gave a few dollars. Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Jahn, Frederick Ludwig (1778-1852); Neander, Johann August (1789-1850); Liberty; Germans; Mendel, David HURRICANE IN AUGUST, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: We had been short in the grain Last Line: We sifted life grain by grain %and divided the gourds Subject(s): August; Hurricanes IN AUGUST, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When august days are hot an' dry Last Line: And go ahead, and fish, and lie! Subject(s): August IN AUGUST, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the great trees [or, cottonwoods] the locusts cry Last Line: Like stricken things, and the ring-dove's note %sobs on in the dim distance Subject(s): August IN AUGUST, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All the long august afternoon Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): August IN EARLY AUGUST, by ARCHIBALD YOUNG CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On august evenings mists arise Last Line: Seems it, since it was may? Subject(s): August INDIANA BEECH WOODS: AUGUST, by ETHEL ARNOLD TILDEN Poem Text First Line: Beyond the sprawling snake-rail fence Last Line: Whimpering, whimpering, ceaselessly -- Subject(s): August; Beech Trees; Trees LATE AUGUST, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Candles, red tulips, ninety cents the bunch. Last Line: On little rented chairs with gilded backs Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): August LATE AUGUST, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now like an unkempt wife, a blowsy napper Last Line: The voice of macy chiding his commitee Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): August LATE AUGUST, by MARY GILCHRIST POWELL Poem Source First Line: Red spider lilies crawling along the garden paths Subject(s): August LEUDEMANN'S-ON-THE-RIVER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toward even when the day leans down Last Line: To leudemann's-on-the-river. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): August; Dreams; Life; Night; Summer; Nightmares; Bedtime LOVE'S CALENDAR: AUGUST, by MAX DAUTHENDEY Poem Text First Line: We walked beside the nimble brook Last Line: And thought of you long after you had passed. Subject(s): August MIDSUMMER LETTER, by DONALD HALL Poet's Biography First Line: The polished black granite Subject(s): August; Summer MIDSUMMER LETTER, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The polished black granite Last Line: To see it huge in the west %as if this were any august Subject(s): August; Summer MIDSUMMER NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Midsummer night, without a moon, but the stars. Last Line: I am ashamed, I have betrayed my friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): August; Italy; Moon; Night; Stars; Italians; Bedtime NOCTURNE IN AUGUST, by YORK SAMPSON Poem Text First Line: I saw two stars there walking hand in hand Last Line: I try to cling to what is left of night. Subject(s): August; Moon; Night; Bedtime ROUND ONE, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Take blue under cottonwoods, those prayersticks Last Line: The first leaves drifted loose, all those souvenirs of august where your face should be Subject(s): August; February; May (month); November SATIRE ON PAYING CALLS IN AUGUST, by CH'ENG HSIAO Poem Text First Line: When I was young, throughout the hot season Last Line: That august visitors should not be admitted. Subject(s): August; Guests; Visiting SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR: AUGUST, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Harvest approaches with its busy day Last Line: Till monday morning doth its cares pursue %and wakes the harvests buys toils Subject(s): August SONNET TO A.W. VON SCHLEGEL, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In dainty hoop, with flowers all-richly dight Last Line: Awoke, and sank within thine arms, love-drunk. Subject(s): Schlegel, August Wilhelm Von (1767-1845) SONNET: 1. TO AUGUST WILLIAM VON SCHLEGEL, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The worst of worms: the dagger thoughts of doubt Last Line: Each flower can speak, each tree with music swells. Subject(s): Schlegel, August Wilhelm Von (1767-1845) SONNET: 2. TO THE SAME (AUGUST WILLIAM VON SCHLEGEL), by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Contented not with thine own property Last Line: Enrich the scholar and the joyful heir. Subject(s): Schlegel, August Wilhelm Von (1767-1845) SONNETS FOR FIVE SEASONS: STASIS, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the leaves change, light transforms these lucid Subject(s): August; September; Weather SONNETS OF THE MONTHS: AUGUST, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE Poem Source First Line: For august, be your dwelling thirty towers Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo Subject(s): August SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 7, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And is this august weather? Nay, not so Last Line: Cheer up there can be nothing worse to mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): August; Rain; Weather SPARROW, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When august hangs the bough with plums Last Line: For men and birds of wit and taste. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): August; Cities; Country Life; Sparrows; Urban Life THE CORN IS IN TASSEL, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The corn is in tassel, and each tufted plume Last Line: The corn is in tassel, the year at its prime. Subject(s): August; Birds; Corn; Sun THE FRUITS OF THE SEASON, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a fresh morning of late august in padua. After the night's rain, the Last Line: I have eaten the first fruit of the season, and I am in love Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): August; Love THE LAST DAY OF AUGUST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man in a lawn chair Last Line: Growing on the counter next to the knife. Subject(s): August; Fruit; Grass; Pear Trees; Summer; Trees; Pears THE POET'S CALENDAR: AUGUST, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The emperor octavian, called the august Last Line: The golden harvests as my heritage. Subject(s): August THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: AUGUST, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, perigot, what shalbe the game Last Line: The night nigheth fast, yts time to be gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): August WOLF AND THE CASKET; OR THE UNITY OF THE ILIAD, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though wolf, in hypercritic zeal, insists Last Line: The war from fight to fight, from book to book. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Wolf, Friedrich August (1795-1824); Iliad; Odyssey |
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